MySpace.com, News Corp. sued in assault cases — MySpace.com and News Corp. are being sued by the parents of girls who were allegedly solicited and sexually assaulted by adult users of MySpace. — The families, who come from New York, Texas, Pennsylvania and South Carolina …

MySpace hit with online predator suits — NEW YORK (AP) — Four families have sued News Corp. and its MySpace social-networking site after their underage daughters were sexually abused by adults they met on the site, lawyers for the families said Thursday. — The law firms …

MySpace Blocking Widgets? — Updated at 4.22 pm, Thursday:A couple of days ago Robert Young hinted that MySpace might be looking to block-and-tackle-and squeeze some of the widget makers in an effort to bolster its bottom line. Well, looks like the day has arrived sooner that we thought.

Mashup Camp: Geeks plot future of Web — David has been at Mashup Camp 3 in Cambridge this week. Martin Lamonica of news.com was there and filed a report, about geeks plotting the future of the Web. As Chris Radcliff, a Web developer at Eventful, put it: "This is taking the SOA idea …

Sun Isn't Relevant to Startups — Preface: I don't write critically about a company unless I think they have some glimmer of getting better, however small that may be. — I just watched another Scoble Show interview with Jonathan Schwartz, and it reminded me how frustrated I continue to be with Sun …

Tech Start-Ups Have Money to Burn, But Choose Thrift — When Silicon Valley entrepreneur Bill Nguyen launched two technology companies in the late 1990s dot-com boom — Seven Networks and Onebox — they each went through about $2 million a month. The start-ups hired hundreds of people and spent heavily on marketing and sales.

You could call iPhone perfect — I have used the Apple iPhone. I had a private briefing the day after Steve Jobs' keynote and spent about 45 minutes noodling around with the device. — You may touch the hem of my robe if you wish. — In response to a Beatlemania-scale pile of e-mails …

With Arrest of DJ Drama, the Law Takes Aim at Mixtapes — In the world of hip-hop few music executives have more influence than DJ Drama. His "Gangsta Grillz" compilations have helped define this decade's Southern rap explosion. He has been instrumental in the careers of rappers like Young Jeezy and Lil Wayne.

Blacknight Solutions don't tolerate criticism — Blacknight Solutions contacted me this afternoon and asked me to move all my sites off their servers. They no longer want my business. Why? Because I criticised their customer service after they lost all my podcasts …

Apple to charge for faster Wi-Fi — Some MacBook Pro and MacBook customers have the faster 802.11n Wi-Fi chip already sitting in their systems, but it will cost $2 to light it up. — Apple on Thursday confirmed reports that it plans to charge customers a fee to download software …

Don't let politics kill off wireless plan, Newsom says — Google-EarthLink deal to be considered by board next month — A San Francisco partnership with Google and EarthLink to make free wireless Internet access available to all of San Francisco is too important an initiative …

Web Based Feed Readers - How do they stack up? — Bloggers who use FeedBurner have a general idea of the most popular feed readers based on their subscriber statistics. FeedBurner subscriber statistics on the Hitwise Blog show that Bloglines is by far the most popular feed reader, and Hitwise data also support this.

Plan Will Allow 911 and 311 Lines to Accept Digital Images — Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who built his fortune on innovations in information technology, announced a plan yesterday that will allow emergency 911 call centers and the popular 311 service line to receive digital photos and videos from callers.

EDITORIAL: Time for John Doerr to go — I presume that Kleiner Perkins has by now distributed its shareholding in Google to its own investors, the university endowments and other limited partners that entrusted the Silicon Valley venture capital firm with their money.